US maestro: ‘My grandmother … killed a lot of Germans’

US maestro: ‘My grandmother … killed a lot of Germans’

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norman lebrecht

November 18, 2014

Jaap van Zweeden, music director in Dallas, is talking about Shostakovich 8 and remembering his grandma who fought in the Dutch resistance.

He quickly adds: ‘She was not proud of  it. She said: these young men had a future and I took that away.’

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He’s conducting Shostakovich 8 in New York this week.

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